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To: alt.satanism,alt.pagan.magick,alt.magick,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic,alt.witchcraft From: nagasivaSubject: Re: Black Magick Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:44:07 GMT 50020313 VI Archibald Worthington-Smythe : >> ...please explain how it was that Paganistic religion somehow avoided this >> dualism, and why religions like that of Zoroaster should not be called >> 'Paganistic'. thanks. > Black Magick, is an attempt to work against the laws of nature, given that all acts whatsoever are constrained by said laws, how would one go about working against them? > it is an injury to the Will of the practitioner and the "victim". do such Wills recuperate in some way? or is the injury permanent? is there some reason to consider this more seriously than, say, how easily people at times take offense at statements made in public forums like usenet? see what I'm getting at? should we be concerned that these injuries occur, or try to prevent them for some reason? they could as easily be used, projected, to try to manipulate those who are societally-conditioned and dependent. > There is usually a victim. conventionally I completely agree, though religious institutions and groups have attempted to broaden the 'victim' class so as to include innocents including the practitioner, try to displace the Evil Agent as the Grand Antagonist, etc. it would help, for example, if you could provide us with some glimpse into how we can tell the difference between imagined and real victimization. > For example attempting to coerce a fellow microcosm to act against > their will is by definition Black Magick. hth. coercion falls into a group of activities I can see intersecting with some ideas about "injury to the Will", but quickly loses its ground when you start talking about whims and Wills, children and nonhuman dependents, etc. a goodly number of human endeavors includes the domination and coercion of 'fellow microcosms', including politics and the redistribution of wealth, the rearing of progeny, etc. > On the other hand trying to live forever, has the victim as oneself, see? I *told* you eventually the victim would become the magician, and the Art *itself* would be considered demonic, evil, whatever, based on the selfishness or solitariness of the mage. religion is adverse to magic in part because of magic's anti-societal or trans- societal components that vie with religious dogma for supremacy. > although most would not understand why doing this is most > likely Black Magick. of course that would depend on whethger it was really possible. there aren't really very cosmologies where such possibilities exist and they aren't considered laudible in some way. immortality is typically the *objective* of Grand Religious Acts, if it isn't somehow facilitated by the Cosmic God or the Oven making them possible. n a B g l b a e e s s a i s s v e t a d ! @yronwode.com
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